For all make-up work, be sure to include DATE your making up, CLASS PERIOD, and your NAME!
MODULE #3 of QUARTER #4:
Fri 6/6
FINAL CHANCE - GET IN PAST WORK!
Thu 6/5
Afternoon picnic - morning classes only
Mythbusters and make-up time
Wed 6/4
Make-up work and bar bets
- Dollar out from under upside down bottle
- Lighter out from under upside down bottle
- Dollar out from under quarters on top of bottle
- Pick up a bottle by inserting a straw
- Balance quarters outside of a glass on a business card
- Match lands on its edge
- How many pennies can we put in a full glass of water
- 10-pointed toothpick star becomes a 5-pointed star without touching the toothpicks
- Cut a hole in an index card that I can put my whole head through
Thu 5/29
Jeopardy review of sound and light for test
Tue 5/27- Wed 5/28
Make-up: Download the guide and complete using a simulator on a computer that runs java
Mixing paints makes things darker
Mixing light makes things brighter
PhET simulation to see how light mixes
Fri 5/23
Make-up: Download the viewing guide and answer the first 8 questions by watching this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihewOunI1X4 Invisible Worlds video
Learned more about the kinds of light we can't see and how they are useful
Thu 5/22
Make-up: Read about Atomic Spectra 28.11 and answer 3 questions
Using a spectroscope to split light into different colors
Overhead fluorescent light comes from electrons excited in a gas
Sunlight and old-fashioned lightbulbs come from things that are hot giving off light
OAS - Red Hot Rim
Wed 5/21
Make-up: Read about reflection 28.2 and answer 3 questions
What light can do - emit, absorb, reflect, transmit
Practice with those words
Light through milky water - blue scatters more and red stays more on track
This is why we have blue skies and sunsets
The box with a hole is like our eyeball - explains red eye
Thu 5/15
Make-up: Read about Loudness 26.5 and answer 3 questions
Decibels tell how intense / loud sound is
It's a logarithmic scale - multiplying in size instead of adding
Practice with exponents
Wed 5/14
Make-up: Read Speed of Sound 26.4 and answer 3 questions
Sound experiments outside - measuring the time it takes for an echo
Listening to sound through metal and air at the same time
Tue 5/13 - MAP testing 3rd & 4th hr Make-up: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/)
Mythbusters on earthquake machines and exploding lava lamps
Mon 5/12
Make-up: Read wave speed 25.4 and answer 3 questions
The wave equation: v=f*l
Measuring the speed of sound using tuning forks and tubes in water
CP Homework: Sound worksheet due Fri 5/16
Wed 5/7
Make-up: Schedule a time with Leslie to take the test
Q4 Test #1 - Waves and Sound
Tue 5/6
Jeopardy review of sounds and waves
Mon 5/5
Make-up: Get "waves in a sink" packet from Leslie and complete it
Looked at an old-fashioned ripple tank
Review of frequency and amplitude using the Phet Waves in an Electric Sink simulator
Fri 5/2
Make-up: Read section 26.9 and answer 3 questions
Reviewing types of instruments - Blue man group and PVC instrument (OAS - veggie instruments)
Interference is what waves do when they meet, for sound too!
Reversing the wiring on one stereo speaker makes some of the sound disappear
Two speakers playing the same note creates loud and quiet spots around the room
= constructive and destructive interference
Thu 5/1
--Feed My Starving Children field trip -- Make-up: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/)
Brown note, Blown Away
Wed 4/30
Make-up: Use the internet to find out the difference between pitch, intensity, and timbre for sound. Write down your sources and answers
Used different musical instruments to make different sounds
Three categories for sound changes: Pitch, intensity, and timbre
Three categories for instruments: Strings, air columns, and percussion (OAS - veggie instruments) (OAS - Harmonic washing machine resonance)
Tue 4/29
Make-up: Read section 26.8 and answer 3 questions
Resonance is when energy is added at an object's NATURAL frequency causing BIG vibrations
Looked at examples: Two tuning forks, kid on a swing, suspension bridge, car on air track
Then we thought of our own examples.
CP Homework: What happens if you pump your legs half as often on a swing? Twice as often? (Due Wed 4/30)
Mon 4/28
Make-up: Read sections 26.6-7 and answer the 3 questions
Why are different sounds different?
Sorting pennies by sound
Tuning forks are labeled with their natural frequency
We can force something, like an acoustic guitar body, to vibrate at other frequencies
Fri 4/25
Make-up: Read section 25.9 and answer 3 questions
Doppler effect - frequency changes when source or observer is moving
Watched clips and listened
White board questions about simulators
Spinning a tuner on a string in class
Can we explain it?
Thu 4/17
Make-up: Use the internet to find out about the Asian Tsunami on 12/26/2004 and write 3 paragraphs on what happened and how it affected people http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/asian-tsunami-disaster/
Video on devastating waves caused by earthquakes
Free write: A) What do you imagine it would have been like for you? or B) What do you think about minimizing the effect of tsunamis?
Wed 4/16
Make-up: Read section 25.8 and answer 3 questions
Review of interference - waves running into each other
Standing waves: interference makes a wave appear to be standing still
Ruben's tube: A visual representation of sound waves
Making and measuring standing waves
Tue 4/15
Make-up: Wave addition worksheet
What do waves do when they meet? PEO with simulator
Interference - the result of waves adding when they meet (+&-)
Moire patterns are visual interference patterns of light and dark lines
Practice drawing how pulses would add / cancel when they meet.
Mon 4/14
Make-up: Get packet from Leslie and use a computer that can run java to complete it
Last term for our sheet: wavespeed
Practice measuring wavespeed in a simulator
CP Homework: Waves worksheet (pg 3) due Wed 4/16
Fri 4/11
Make-up: Read section 25.2 and answer 3 questions about amplitude and wavelength
Frequency and period review
Defining amplitude and wavelength
Measuring amplitude, wavelength and pulse time
with a slinky and on the smartboard (OAS - people packed in a wave pool)
Thu 4/10
Make-up: Read section 25.5 & 25.6 and answer 3 questions
Commit and Toss Question about how sound works
Stadium Waves
Defining transverse and longitudinal
Phet Simulator
Observe: A wave travels through a medium but does not take the medium with it
Evidence that our voice isn't like a wind of air to people's ears
Wed 4/9
Make-up:Read Section 25.2 and answer 3 questions about f & T
Period of a clock pendulum
Adding period to our concept sheet
Whiteboard practice with blinky lights
OAS: Hounds of Havoc - puppy popping balloons
Writing our own physics mad libs
CP Homework: Write another question about something repeating and find both f and T. (due 4/11)
Tue 4/8
Make-up:Read Section 25.3 and answer 3 questions
Start our waves concept sheet
Review frequency
A wave is a wiggle in time and space - examples
Fun with a vacuum jar
Sound experiment -- no air = no sound!
CP homework: Give evidence that sound can travel through something other than air (due 4/9)
Mon 4/7 Make-up: N/A
About the class
Defining frequency
Practicing with dots and squiggles
Brainstorm different units of time; draw one and think of things with that kind of frequency
Quarter 4: Waves, Sound, and Light
2013-14 School year
Quarter #4 Module #3: Mon 5/19 - Fri 6/6
Quarter #4 Module #2: Mon 4/28 - Fir 5/16
Quarter #4 Module #1: Mon 4/7 - Fri 4/25
Make-up work
For all make-up work, be sure to include DATE your making up, CLASS PERIOD, and your NAME!MODULE #3 of QUARTER #4:
Fri 6/6
FINAL CHANCE - GET IN PAST WORK!
Thu 6/5
Afternoon picnic - morning classes only
Mythbusters and make-up time
Wed 6/4
Make-up work and bar bets
- Dollar out from under upside down bottle
- Lighter out from under upside down bottle
- Dollar out from under quarters on top of bottle
- Pick up a bottle by inserting a straw
- Balance quarters outside of a glass on a business card
- Match lands on its edge
- How many pennies can we put in a full glass of water
- 10-pointed toothpick star becomes a 5-pointed star without touching the toothpicks
- Cut a hole in an index card that I can put my whole head through
Tue 6/3
Color and shadow
Hewitt video and worksheet on what colors shadows will be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He0lkmbQGkI
Making color wheels - need sharpies!
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/disappearing-color-wheel
Color optical illusions
Mon 6/2
Optical Illusions - physiological, cognitive, anamorphic
Brain Games - Illusion Confusion on how your brain makes 3-d images
Fri 5/30
Test on Sound and Light
Thu 5/29
Jeopardy review of sound and light for test
Tue 5/27- Wed 5/28
Make-up: Download the guide and complete using a simulator on a computer that runs java
Mixing paints makes things darker
Mixing light makes things brighter
PhET simulation to see how light mixes
Mon 5/26 - Memorial Day: NO SCHOOL
Fri 5/23
Make-up: Download the viewing guide and answer the first 8 questions by watching this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihewOunI1X4
Invisible Worlds video
Learned more about the kinds of light we can't see and how they are useful
Thu 5/22
Make-up: Read about Atomic Spectra 28.11 and answer 3 questions
Using a spectroscope to split light into different colors
Overhead fluorescent light comes from electrons excited in a gas
Sunlight and old-fashioned lightbulbs come from things that are hot giving off light
OAS - Red Hot Rim
Wed 5/21
Make-up: Read about reflection 28.2 and answer 3 questions
What light can do - emit, absorb, reflect, transmit
Practice with those words
Light through milky water - blue scatters more and red stays more on track
This is why we have blue skies and sunsets
The box with a hole is like our eyeball - explains red eye
Tue 5/20
Make-up: Download the EM Webquest and answer the questions
Use http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/01_intro.html to answer questions about the many kinds of light
Mon 5/19
Make-up:Read about light 27.3 and answer 3 questions
Sound vs. Light - using books and brains to compare light waves and sound waves
MODULE #2 of QUARTER #4:
Fri 5/16
Make-up: Read Speed of light 27.2 and answer 3 questions
Speed of light in marshmallows
Thu 5/15
Make-up: Read about Loudness 26.5 and answer 3 questions
Decibels tell how intense / loud sound is
It's a logarithmic scale - multiplying in size instead of adding
Practice with exponents
Wed 5/14
Make-up: Read Speed of Sound 26.4 and answer 3 questions
Sound experiments outside - measuring the time it takes for an echo
Listening to sound through metal and air at the same time
Tue 5/13 - MAP testing 3rd & 4th hr
Make-up: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/)
Mythbusters on earthquake machines and exploding lava lamps
Mon 5/12
Make-up: Read wave speed 25.4 and answer 3 questions
The wave equation: v=f*l
Measuring the speed of sound using tuning forks and tubes in water
CP Homework: Sound worksheet due Fri 5/16
Fri 5/9
Make-up: See Leslie to do Johnny Sound experiment in hallway
Watched OAS on veggie instruments
Practiced measuring speed of Johnny Sound
Thu 5/8 - Late start day - no class
Wed 5/7
Make-up: Schedule a time with Leslie to take the test
Q4 Test #1 - Waves and Sound
Tue 5/6
Jeopardy review of sounds and waves
Mon 5/5
Make-up: Get "waves in a sink" packet from Leslie and complete it
Looked at an old-fashioned ripple tank
Review of frequency and amplitude using the Phet Waves in an Electric Sink simulator
Fri 5/2
Make-up: Read section 26.9 and answer 3 questions
Reviewing types of instruments - Blue man group and PVC instrument
(OAS - veggie instruments)
Interference is what waves do when they meet, for sound too!
Reversing the wiring on one stereo speaker makes some of the sound disappear
Two speakers playing the same note creates loud and quiet spots around the room
= constructive and destructive interference
Thu 5/1
--Feed My Starving Children field trip --
Make-up: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/)
Brown note, Blown Away
Wed 4/30
Make-up: Use the internet to find out the difference between pitch, intensity, and timbre for sound. Write down your sources and answers
Used different musical instruments to make different sounds
Three categories for sound changes: Pitch, intensity, and timbre
Three categories for instruments: Strings, air columns, and percussion
(OAS - veggie instruments)
(OAS - Harmonic washing machine resonance)
Tue 4/29
Make-up: Read section 26.8 and answer 3 questions
Resonance is when energy is added at an object's NATURAL frequency causing BIG vibrations
Looked at examples: Two tuning forks, kid on a swing, suspension bridge, car on air track
Then we thought of our own examples.
CP Homework: What happens if you pump your legs half as often on a swing? Twice as often? (Due Wed 4/30)
Mon 4/28
Make-up: Read sections 26.6-7 and answer the 3 questions
Why are different sounds different?
Sorting pennies by sound
Tuning forks are labeled with their natural frequency
We can force something, like an acoustic guitar body, to vibrate at other frequencies
MODULE #1 of QUARTER #4:
Fri 4/25
Make-up: Read section 25.9 and answer 3 questions
Doppler effect - frequency changes when source or observer is moving
Watched clips and listened
White board questions about simulators
Spinning a tuner on a string in class
Can we explain it?
Mon 4/21-Thu 4/24
Make-up: See Leslie to do a Vee Chart experiment
Vee Chart Project - Investigated a question about waves and sound:
- How does the mass at the ends of the straws affect the speed of a wave machine?
- How does the tension hanging from the wave machine affect the wave speed?
- How does the length of the crinkle tube affect the frequency of the sound produced?
Day 4: Mythbusters - can a singer break a glass?Fri 4/18
NO SCHOOL!
Thu 4/17
Make-up: Use the internet to find out about the Asian Tsunami on 12/26/2004 and write 3 paragraphs on what happened and how it affected people
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/asian-tsunami-disaster/
Video on devastating waves caused by earthquakes
Free write: A) What do you imagine it would have been like for you? or B) What do you think about minimizing the effect of tsunamis?
Wed 4/16
Make-up: Read section 25.8 and answer 3 questions
Review of interference - waves running into each other
Standing waves: interference makes a wave appear to be standing still
Ruben's tube: A visual representation of sound waves
Making and measuring standing waves
Tue 4/15
Make-up: Wave addition worksheet
What do waves do when they meet? PEO with simulator
Interference - the result of waves adding when they meet (+&-)
Moire patterns are visual interference patterns of light and dark lines
Practice drawing how pulses would add / cancel when they meet.
Mon 4/14
Make-up: Get packet from Leslie and use a computer that can run java to complete it
Last term for our sheet: wavespeed
Practice measuring wavespeed in a simulator
CP Homework: Waves worksheet (pg 3) due Wed 4/16
Fri 4/11
Make-up: Read section 25.2 and answer 3 questions about amplitude and wavelength
Frequency and period review
Defining amplitude and wavelength
Measuring amplitude, wavelength and pulse time
with a slinky and on the smartboard
(OAS - people packed in a wave pool)
Thu 4/10
Make-up: Read section 25.5 & 25.6 and answer 3 questions
Commit and Toss Question about how sound works
Stadium Waves
Defining transverse and longitudinal
Phet Simulator
Observe: A wave travels through a medium but does not take the medium with it
Evidence that our voice isn't like a wind of air to people's ears
Wed 4/9
Make-up:Read Section 25.2 and answer 3 questions about f & T
Period of a clock pendulum
Adding period to our concept sheet
Whiteboard practice with blinky lights
OAS: Hounds of Havoc - puppy popping balloons
Writing our own physics mad libs
CP Homework: Write another question about something repeating and find both f and T. (due 4/11)
Tue 4/8
Make-up:Read Section 25.3 and answer 3 questions
Start our waves concept sheet
Review frequency
A wave is a wiggle in time and space - examples
Fun with a vacuum jar
Sound experiment -- no air = no sound!
CP homework: Give evidence that sound can travel through something other than air (due 4/9)
Mon 4/7
Make-up: N/A
About the class
Defining frequency
Practicing with dots and squiggles
Brainstorm different units of time; draw one and think of things with that kind of frequency